“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”  Sir William Osler

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is perhaps the bravest thing we will ever do.”  Brené Brown

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”  ― Warren Buffet

"I have great faith in a seed.... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." — Henry David Thoreau

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”  William James, MD, considered to be the “Father of American Psychology”

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”  Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

“Why is it that giving myself a break feels like such a big deal!?” Me

“Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.”  Hippocrates

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person,  to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”   Aristotle

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen …. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world.” Brene Brown (The Gifts of Imperfection).

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus, French Novelist and Nobel Prize Winner

“Toxic positivity is positivity given in the wrong way, in the wrong dose, at the wrong time.”  David Kessler, author of “Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief.”

“I’m less interested in skin than in fascia – connective tissue.” Matthew Barney, contemporary artist and film maker

“What I realize (and our patients will never know), what they don’t teach in medical school is how to really take a vacation.” Pam Lenkov, MD from her poem "Away Time" in her commentary “How to Take a Vacation.”

“Often, the very things we most wish to change are the most difficult to touch because they are protected by fears we have not examined." – Lisa Lahey, EdD, co-author of "Immunity to Change”

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

“Words create worlds.”  – Attributed to many.  “Worlds create words.” – Me

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”  ― Carl Gustav Jung

“In my own experience of autumn’s losses, I am rarely aware that seeds are being planted.”  Parker Palmer in his book “Let Your Life Speak.”

“Gatherings consume our days and help determine the kind of world we live in.”  – Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters